Course Overview
Organizations need a data strategy to succeed, but there’s no one-size fits all approach. Every organization will have unique objectives and obstacles. Join this event to learn how to modernize, unify, and innovate your way to a modern data strategy with AWS.
- Level: Fundamental
- Duration: 1.5 hours
We recommend that attendees of this event continue learning with these:
- Courses
- Resources
- AWS Ramp-Up Guide: Data Analytics
- AWS Ramp-Up Guide: Databases
Who should attend
This event is intended for:
- Data architects, data scientists, and data analysts new to the AWS Cloud
- Solutions architects
- Database administrators
Course Objectives
During this event, you will learn:
- How AWS services help you modernize, unify, and innovate your data infrastructure
- How to use AWS services to provide secure and well-governed access to data
- How to innovate with AI/ML by harnessing your data with built-in ML
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Outline: Discovery Day- Fundamentals of a Modern Data Strategy on AWS (AWSDD-FMDS)
Section 1: Introduction
- Business value of a modern data strategy
- Challenges
- Use cases
- Traditional vs. cloud
- Modern data strategy on AWS
Section 2: Modernize
- Relational databases
- Purpose-built databases
Section 3: Unify
- Data lakes with Amazon S3
- Lake house approach on AWS
- Purpose-built data services
- Breaking down data silos
- Unified governance
Section 4: Innovate
- Machine learning (ML) services
- Artificial intelligence (AI) services
- Data stores, data lakes, and BI tools with built-in ML
Section 5: Next steps
- Resources to continue learning